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This introductory-level (but intensive) class includes a ten-day expedition to South Dakota and
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skeletal anatomy, systematics and large-scale evolutionary patterns). This course provides the knowledge needed to discover and understand the meaning of fossils as they are preserved in the field, which is applied to actual paleontological sites.
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